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cp/wp plugin: easy wp meta description NOTES                    rev 26 aug 2021


Category: manage-content
cp/wp: classicpress and wordpress 
    in classicpress, excerpt field is already there for posts.
webwalker: essential

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description: 

  gives field to add a short description for each page/post,
  which will display in <head> as the meta description.
  It is restoring the same meta description functionality that
  WordPress used to have.

  Version recommendation: FREEZE at n.n | UPDATE OK

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sources: 

  Plugin page:
    https://wordpress.org/plugins/easy-wp-meta-description

  WordPress forums:
    https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/easy-wp-meta-description
    https://wordpress.org/search/classicpress+easy-wp-meta-description/?forums=1
  ClassicPress forums:
    https://forums.classicpress.net/search?q=%22easy%20wp%20meta%20description%22

  Docs and code:
    https://pluginwebsite.tld/

 
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➽ Install/config/uninstall:

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install:

  the usual.


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settings:

    under Settings sidebar menu.
    has its own sidebar menu
    settings link on plugin page


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uninstall:

  - deletes from database?

  tables: 
 


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➽ Notes:



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Google search results don't display the meta description.

  It may display the first couple lines of the content, or some
  other part of the content. This is super annoying. 
  Started happening in 2019.
  No known way to make it show your choice instead of theirs.

  * https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-always-seen-on-google/

  * https://support.google.com/webmasters/thread/14843323

  * https://www.sistrix.com/ask-sistrix/onpage-optimisation/meta-element-meta-tag/my-own-meta-description-is-not-being-displayed-in-the-search-results-why/

  The "reasons" given for Google's "choices" are bullshit to me.
  Our websites all have well-structured html, a meta description tag,
  content of description is either the first couple sentences of
  the page content or a carefully written summary.

  I often see google descriptions for my and others' sites that are 
  completely useless.

  It's like censorship.

  Other search engines are starting to do this also.
  

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Enable built-in excerpt for pages:
  Put in functions.php
  add_post_type_support(‘page’, ‘excerpt’);
  didn't work [5 may 2020]

  https://www.wpbeginner.com/plugins/add-excerpts-to-your-pages-in-wordpress/

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How to display Excerpts on the Posts archive page

    Go to Settings > Reading.
    Scroll to For each article in a feed, show.
    Select Summary.


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Use excerpt as meta description:

* Use post excerpt:
 <?php
 if ( is_singular() ) {
 	global $post;
 	setup_postdata($post);
 ?>
 <meta name="description" content="<?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?>" />
 <?php } ?>

  this works.
  https://wparena.com/how-to-use-the-excerpt-as-a-description/


* More complex, for displaying for home page, category page, etc:
  https://blog.kohactive.com/wordpres-hacks-using-post-excerpts-as-meta-descriptions/

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  You can use the content in templates etc with the built-in wordpress functions
    the_excerpt()
    get_the_excerpt()

  * https://wordpress.org/support/article/excerpt/#how-to-display-excerpts-on-the-posts-page


  <?php if (has_excerpt()) { ?>
     <p><?php the_excerpt(); ?></p>
  <?php } ?>

  * https://wordpress.org/support/topic/the_excerpt-and-get_the_excerpt-is-not-showing/


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more info:

  * https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/the_excerpt/
  * https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_excerpt/

  * https://wordpress.org/support/article/excerpt/
  * https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-excerpt/
  * https://www.wpbeginner.com/glossary/excerpt/


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